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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






2. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun






3. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality






4. Final stable syllable

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5. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu






6. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.






7. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.






8. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel






9. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language






10. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability






11. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






12. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t






13. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.






14. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.






15. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)






16. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together






17. Ability to understand and express spoken language






18. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet






19. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






20. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example






21. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.






22. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail






23. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school






24. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.






25. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






26. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.






27. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.






28. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!






29. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






30. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)






31. The process of systematically gathering test scores and related data in order to make judgement about an individuals ability to perform various mental activities involved in the processing - acquisition - retention - conceptualization - and organizat






32. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media






33. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language






34. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the






35. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.






36. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.






37. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.






38. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness






39. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.

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40. Multisensory Structured Language Education






41. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress






42. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)






43. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.






44. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words






45. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia






46. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others






47. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






48. State Board of Eduation






49. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies






50. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes